Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-24

and is not only building several lines il
Nebraska but now threatens to pust
southwesterly through Kansas and Indial
Territory to Texas in competition witt
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, il
retaliation for that company's inroad:
into Northern Kansas"
The AtchisoD-Gulf was four hours lat
last night, owing to mfshap at thu
Washita. A long construction traiI
loaded with heavy stones was in front o.
the passenger when a large stone feI
from ore of the cars on the track anC
threw two heavily loaded fats from the
rails thus effectually blocking the way
until considerable force of men could
remove the distractions, No great dam
age was done except the yeXatious delay
THE GAZETTE still backs the Atchison-
Gulf to be r. o. T. D. when all those
iron bridges are in and the rock culverts
/ completed.
c. R. Wise, one of the chief engineers
of the st. Louis and San Francisco, was
in Fort Worth last night in close con-
sultation with the chief engineer of
another system of roads, and it may be
that he was obtaining Certein information
as to how the other road was coming into
Fort Worth. Mr.. Wise had nothing to
say for publication in regard to his visit
to Fort Worth. He did not even drop q
| hint to the reporter on the subject. Mr.
| Wise has done some very fine work, and
could run line from some point in Texas
TO Fort Worth that would be good thing
to have IN the neighborhoed of this city
Chief Engineer Hinckley of the St
Louis, Arkansas and Texas returned last
night from Hillsboro and reports work
on the Corsicana- Hillsboro extension as
progressing nicely. He says that the
Fort Worth right of way committee has
done good work, already eight miles Of
right Of way being ready for the graders
from this city to the northeast. Engineer
Weeks party has reached point not far
from Trinity Mills, and work from Com
merce to Greenville is booming. Major
Hinckley said he did not know Just when
Britton Lyon would begin work here,
but doubtless in very few days. Major
HinCkley will be in Fort Worth all of to-
Day.
The locating corps of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grsnde is well under way with
its work. 1t is said that better liHe
can be obtained than a preliminary run to
Brentwood some time age. As stated
yesterday, the right of way as far as San
Angelo will be obtained by Right of Way
Agent Chambers Just as fast as the road
is located. Stronger and stronger
grows the cry of son
to San Angelo" An engineer
said yesterday that he believed the corps
now in the field would get q line to |
Brentwood from Fort Worth which |
would be only l22 miles long, and to San
Angelo, mile or two less than 200. The |
distance to San Angelo is usually placed |
at 206 miles and to Rrownwood at 1926.
-.
Tie star of empire is rapidly Coming to |
the south. In Texas the people cannot |
get railroads fast enough. In Ohio they |
are tearing up the tracks. Here is what |
the Railway Age says about it: The IN
usual sight Of a railway being stripped of |
its track and abandoned has been wit |
messed in Ohio, in the case of the Cincin- |
nsti, Columbus and Hooking Valley, To-
cally known as the Grssshopper road. Its |
twenty-five miles of track, although lying |
in the heart of one of the richest states in
the Union, long ago proved improbable,
and after lying IDLE for some time the rails
and ties were sold by the owner, Chico
go capitalist, for what they would bring
and have been taken up and carried away
Although the roadbed remains, it does
not verify the assertion sometimes made |
that e railway once opened can never
stop its operation.